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MS untraced; text is taken from Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.),
Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850). Previously published: Charles
Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), III, pp.
79–80.Dating note: C.C. Southey says this is an ‘extract from a letter written to Mr. Neville White at the close of the
year’.

These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer

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1407. Robert Southey to Neville White, fragment [December
1807]MS: MS untraced; text is taken from Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.),
Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850)Previously published: Charles
Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), III, pp.
79–80.Dating note: C.C. Southey says this is an ‘extract from a letter written to Mr. Neville White at the close of the
year’.

The sight of the books now completedThe Remains of Henry Kirke
White, of Nottingham (1807), which was edited by Southey. gave me a melancholy feeling, and I could not
help repeating some lines of Wordsworth’s, –

‘Thou soul of God’s best earthly mould, Thou happy soul, and can it be That this . .
. . . Is all that must remain of thee?’ Lines 29–32, the final stanza of
‘Lines written on a Tablet in a School’ (‘Matthew’) (1799) from Lyrical Ballads (1800).

But this is not all: so many days and nights of unrelenting study, so many hopes and fears, so many aspirations after fame, so much
genius, and so many virtues, have left behind them more than this, – they have left comfort and consolation to his friends, an
honourable remembrance for himself, and for others, a bright and encouraging example.

Our intercourse will not be at an end. When I visit London, which will certainly be during the winter, and probably
very soon, I shall see you. We shall have, it is to be hoped and expected, to communicate respecting after editions; and at all
times it will give me great pleasure to hear from you.